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Observation of Weyl nodes in robust type-II Weyl semimetal WP2 | | M.-Y. Yao
; N. Xu
; Q. Wu
; G. Autès
; N. Kumar
; V. N. Strocov
; N. C. Plumb
; M. Radovic
; O. V. Yazyev
; C. Felser
; J. Mesot
; M. Shi
; | | Date: |
6 Apr 2019 | | Abstract: | Distinct to type-I Weyl semimetals (WSMs) that host quasiparticles described
by the Weyl equation, the energy dispersion of quasiparticles in type-II WSMs
violates Lorentz invariance and the Weyl cones in the momentum space are
tilted. Since it was proposed that type-II Weyl fermions could emerge from
(W,Mo)Te2 and (W,Mo)P2 families of materials, a large numbers of experiments
have been dedicated to unveil the possible manifestation of type-II WSM, e.g.
the surface-state Fermi arcs. However, the interpretations of the experimental
results are very controversial. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission
spectroscopy supported by the first-principles calculations, we probe the
tilted Weyl cone bands in the bulk electronic structure of WP2 directly, which
are at the origin of Fermi arcs at the surfaces and transport properties
related to the chiral anomaly in type-II WSMs. Our results ascertain that due
to the spin-orbit coupling the Weyl nodes originate from the splitting of
4-fold degenerate band-crossing points with Chern numbers C = $pm$2 induced by
the crystal symmetries of WP2, which is unique among all the discovered WSMs.
Our finding also provides a guiding line to observe the chiral anomaly which
could manifest in novel transport properties. | | Source: | arXiv, 1904.3523 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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